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Extra Hospital Beds To Help With Heavy Winter Load
Friday, 11 June 2004, 4:16 pm | Waitemata District Health Board
Charge Nurse Linda Moses started work at North Shore Hospital more than 22 years ago. Today she is overseeing the opening of the hospital’s first ever Winter Ward. More >>
Smokefree Message Goes Mobile In Waitemata
Wednesday, 26 May 2004, 12:11 am | Waitemata District Health Board
Waitemata District Health Board’s newly branded smokefree car will hit the streets next Monday to mark World Smokefree Day – May 31st. More >>
North Shore Hospital Part of Int Melanoma Trial
Monday, 3 May 2004, 12:16 am | Waitemata District Health Board
North Shore Hospital is the trial centre in New Zealand of an international melanoma research trial which uses immunotherapy instead of chemotherapy to treat patients. More >>
Salt Reduction Initiative Positive Step For Hearts
Friday, 30 April 2004, 2:19 pm | Waitemata District Health Board
Waitemata DHB believes a new National Heart Foundation initiative to reduce dietary salt by working with food manufacturers could significantly improve the community’s cardiovascular health. More >>
PHO Enrolments Advancing Rapidly In Waitemata
Thursday, 22 April 2004, 12:00 am | Waitemata District Health Board
Some 352,000 Waitemata district residents are now enrolled with a Primary Health Organisation (PHO) according to latest figures for the April-June quarter. More >>
Outpatients Clinics Moved At North Shore Hospital
Friday, 16 April 2004, 12:57 am | Waitemata District Health Board
A new lung function service and pre-admission assessments will be among facilities available at North Shore Hospital’s redeveloped Outpatients department opening on Monday April 26. More >>
Cardiac Diagnostic Imaging Unique In New Zealand
Wednesday, 7 April 2004, 2:36 pm | Waitemata District Health Board
Cardiologists at North Shore Hospital say patients will benefit from new heart monitoring equipment which allows a level of clinical cardiac imaging that is unique in New Zealand More >>
Massive Email Merger for Auck’s Metropolitan DHBs
Tuesday, 6 April 2004, 10:37 am | Waitemata District Health Board
Auckland’s three metropolitan DHBs have completed what is believed to be one of the biggest email mergers New Zealand has seen. More >>
North Shore Hospital Comes Of Age On 20th Birthday
Friday, 2 April 2004, 3:09 pm | Waitemata District Health Board
Current and past mayors George Wood and George Gair (who was also among the first raft of surgical patients in the newly opened operating theatres in 1984) will join North Shore Hospital staff in a special celebration on Monday April 5. More >>
North Shore Hospital Barcodes Anaesthetic Drugs
Thursday, 25 March 2004, 3:36 pm | Waitemata District Health Board
North Shore Hospital is the first public hospital in New Zealand to implement a fully integrated drug delivery and electronic anaesthetic recording system in its operating theatres.1 More >>
Hospital Celebrates 20th Birthday With Nursing Day
Thursday, 25 March 2004, 10:27 am | Waitemata District Health Board
North Shore Hospital’s tower block turns 20 in April and is celebrating with a Nursing Open Day. More >>
Intelligent Scanner Improves Patient Care
Wednesday, 28 January 2004, 1:46 pm | Waitemata District Health Board
North Shore Hospital’s new state-of-the-art multi-slice CT Scanner (computerised tomography) is so sophisticated it will look after itself as well as the patients it scans. More >>
Hospital opens first stage of new outpatients dept
Wednesday, 3 December 2003, 9:54 am | Waitemata District Health Board
The first areas of a new, purpose-built outpatients department at North Shore Hospital will be opened to patients for the first time next week. More >>
Waitemata’s Resus Trainers Top In Country
Tuesday, 2 December 2003, 2:43 pm | Waitemata District Health Board
The skill of the eight-person team was recognised at a recent New Zealand Resuscitation Council (NZRC) conference in Wellington where the Duncan Galletly New Zealand Resuscitation Council Health Professional Instructor trophy was awarded for the first time. More >>
New high-tech CT scanner for North Shore Hospital
Thursday, 6 November 2003, 3:35 pm | Waitemata District Health Board
North Shore Hospital is to get a new multi-slice CT scanner (computerised tomography) that will not only scan patients faster but also enable images to be viewed in 3D. More >>
New x-ray machines for Waitakere Hospital
Tuesday, 4 November 2003, 6:00 pm | Waitemata District Health Board
West Aucklanders now have access to improved radiology services with the commissioning of two new general x-ray machines as part of the opening of a new radiology facility at Waitakere Hospital. More >>
Hospital moves into new extension
Friday, 10 October 2003, 5:44 pm | Waitemata District Health Board
A major migration programme involving staff, patients and hundreds of pieces of equipment gets under way at Waitakere Hospital next week as part of Stage 1 of the hospital’s development programme. More >>
Special care baby unit opens at North Shore Hosp.
Monday, 29 September 2003, 6:34 pm | Waitemata District Health Board
Premature and sick babies will be able to be cared for at North Shore Hospital with the opening next week of a new special care baby unit (SCBU). More >>
Tool Can Find And Diagnose Cancers Earlier
Monday, 29 September 2003, 11:49 am | Waitemata District Health Board
North Shore Hospital, Waitemata DHB, is introducing a new Auckland-wide regional service that will allow more accurate diagnosis of the extent of cancers for hundreds of patients. More >>
Groundbreaking Surgery At North Shore Hospital
Monday, 25 August 2003, 4:11 pm | Waitemata District Health Board
Surgeons at North Shore and Middlemore hospitals are triallng a new technique in hip replacement operations that can see patients walking the same day of surgery. More >>
